On Saturday, August 29, 2020, John M. Harris Jr <joh...@splentity.com>
wrote:

> On Monday, August 10, 2020 9:52:42 AM MST Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 9:08 am, Michael Catanzaro
> > <mcatanz...@gnome.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Zbigniew, do you agree that we should remove the script if and only
> > > if it is generated by NetworkManager? Otherwise, the change is only
> > > partially-implemented for users upgrading from F32 and earlier.
> >
> >
> > We agreed to go with this approach. /etc/resolv.conf will be moved to
> > /etc/resolv.conf.orig-with-nm on upgrade to F33 if the 'Generated by
> > NetworkManager' comment is present. If you've gone to the trouble to
> > prevent NetworkManager from managing this file, it's likely you've also
> > removed the comment. If not, you can either remove the comment before
> > upgrade, or recover your previous configuration from the
> > /etc/resolv.conf.orig-with-nm backup file after upgrade, and hopefully
> > have only a small blip in your upgrade experience. This will make the
> > upgrade work properly for the 99% of users who don't mess with the
> > defaults and should not be too difficult for those who do.
>
> That comment being there doesn't mean that is still the case. I haven't
> removed that comment, I just fixed the file. It would be best to just not
> mess
> with this file on upgrade, and, instead, change the behavior of new
> installs.
> This wouldn't break anything, and would have all newly installed systems
> with
> the configuration you seem to want.
>
> There's no reason to break peoples' systems here, we can easily plan for
> this.
> I also don't know where you're getting this estimate of 99% of users not
> changing this file.


People expect to get the new features on upgrades without having to
reinstall.

There is no reason to upgrades differently - if you have customized
configuration you should be reading the changes before doing an upgrade.


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> John M. Harris, Jr.
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